4. august 1914
En skammens dag i arbejderbevægelsen!
Med de tyske socialdemokraters stemmen for krigsbevillingerne indstiftes "borgfreden" under krigen, garanteres den kommende verdenskrig og socialchauvinismen er født. En skillelinjernes dag i arbejderbevægelsen.På dansk:- Kapitalismens verdenskrig og kampen imod den. Af John Riddell (Socialistisk Information, 12.10.2014)
- Det tyvende århundredes urkatastrofe. Af Curt Sørensen (Kritisk Debat, 15 august 2014). En revideret og omarbejdet version af dele af kapitel 6 om 1. verdenskrig, i Curt Sørensen: Stat, Nation, Klasse, bind I (Frydenlund, 2013)
- Fire Aars Kamp: Socialdemokratisk Ungdomsforbund under Verdenskrigen (pdf). Af Ernst Christiansen og Johs. Erwig (Socialdemokratisk Ungdomsforbund Forlag, 1918, 20 s.; online på Det Kongelige Bibliotek).In English:- First World War - a Marxist analysis of the great slaughter (In Defence of Marxism, 1 July 2016). "On the centenary of the battle of the Somme, we are publishing the list of articles [16] written by Alan Woods to examine different aspects of the First World War."
- Understanding the Cataclysm. By Allen Ruff (Against the Current, Issue 183, July-August 2016,). Review of Alexander Anievas (ed.), Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics (Brill / Haymarket, 2015/2016, 412 p.). "There is no way in a brief review to do justice to all of Cataclysm’s diverse and provocative pieces."
- The battle over the meaning of World War I. By Axel Fair-Schulz (International Socialist Review, Issue 99, Winter 2015-16). Review of Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Harper Perennial, 2014, 736 p.) + Herfried Münkler, Der Große Krieg: Die Welt 1914–1918 (Rowohlt Verlag, 2013, 938 p.). "This review focuses on two major new right-wing revisionist narratives ..."
- Fatal Fortnight: Arthur Ponsonby and the Fight for British Neutrality in 1914. By Dominic Alexander (CounterFire, July 30, 2015). Review of Duncan Marlor’s book (Frontline Books, 2014, 240 p.). "... shows that Britain’s rulers took the country to war in 1914 through deceit and manipulation."
- Socialists and World War I: Turn the imperialist war into a civil war. By Doug Enaa Greene (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, February 2, 2015)
- Shaping 20th Century America. By Allen Ruff (Against the Current, Issue 174, January-February 2015). About the United States and World War I.
- How to think about the Great War. By Dick Howard (Logos: a journal of modern society and culture, Vol.13, No.3-4, 2014)
- Ten lies told about World War (Counterfire, November 9, 2014). "Dominic Alexander debunks ten myths used to justify the slaughter of the First World War."
- August 1914 and World War I. By William Smaldone (Against the Current, Issue 172, September-October 2014). "Forced to choose between its internationalist principles and the pull of nationalism, the [socialist] movement collapsed ..."
- World War I and its century. By Allen Ruff (International Viewpoint, Issue 475, August 2014). "In his ’Age of Extremes’, the great Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm marked the start of World War I in August, 1914 as the beginning of the ’short twentieth century’."
- 4th August 1914: The great betrayal and collapse of the Second International. By Rob Sewell (In Defence of Marxism, 4 August 2014). "This year marks not only 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War, but it also marks the centenary of another debacle: the collapse of the Second International, the international body that brought under its banner all the mass workers’ parties."
- WW1: A just war or imperial conflict? By John Newsinger (Socialist Review, Issue 393, July-August 2014). "We are told that the Great War was fought to stop German aggression. But the bloody conflict pitted imperial states against each other in a war for colonies."
- One hundred years since the great slaughter. By Tony Saunios (Socialism Today, Issue 180, July-August 2014). "This anniversary has featured prominently in the capitalist media. Most fail, however, to explain why millions of working-class people were sent to their deaths in trench-warfare hellholes: capitalism’s drive for profit, exploitation, raw materials and markets."
- 4 August: The great betrayal. By Donny Gluckstein (Socialist Review, Issue 393, July/August 2014). "The decision by mass socialist parties in the Second International to support the war cast a long shadow over the continent."
- The capitulation of the Second International. By Robert Becher (Socialism Today, Issue 180, July-August 2014). "Before 1914, the Second International, grouping together socialist and workers’ organisations throughout Europe, resolved to act to prevent war. Once war had been declared, however, nearly all of these parties backed the capitalists in their own countries."
- August 1914 and the myth of general enthusiasm for war in the German working class. By Verena Nees (World Socialist Web Site, 6 August 2014). "New scholarly publications provide evidence that opposition to the outbreak of the First World War was particularly strong within the working class."
- The changing history of the First World War. By Megan Trudell (International Socialism, Issue 143, Summer 2014, p.61-84). "The anniversary of the First World War has already made clear the extent to which the history of the war is contested." See also Megan Trudell: The first World War: slaughter and resistance (Irish Marxist Review, Vol.3, No.10, 2014, p.5-12)
- World War I and its century. By Allen Ruff (Against the Current, Issue 171, July/August 2014). "If the spark that ignited it all was almost accidental - the assassination at Sarajevo of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand - the root causes of the war clearly went far deeper."
- The great schism: socialism and war in 1914. By Paul Blackledge (International Socialism, Issue 143, Summer 2014). "In what follows I first sketch the limitations of Second International Marxism before outlining the strengths and weaknesses of Lenin’s alternative."
- The shadow of recent wars: Historians and the origins of World War I. By Dominic Alexander (Counterfire, 8 May 2014). Review of Christopher Clarke, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Penguin, 2012, 697 p.) + Margaret MacMillan, The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War (Profile Books, 2013, 699 p.)
- The shame of imperialism (Weekly Worker, Issue 992, 9 January 2014) + WW I: Necessary and sufficient condition (Issue 993, 16 January 2014). "In this two-part article Chris Gray examines the origins of the war to end all wars."
- Video: The women who fought against WWI: A presentation and group discussion from Katherine Connelly, author of Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire (Dangerous Times Festival, 2014, 32 min.). On Zetkin, Luxemburg and Pankhurst.
- To end all wars: How the First World War divided Britain. By Lindsey German (Counterfire, 29 August 2013). Review of Adam Hochschild’s book (Pan, 2013, 356 p.). Se også Ebbe Rand Jørgensen anmeldelse af danske udgave (Aldrig mere krig: loyalitet og modstand 1914-1918 (Informations Forlag, 2014): Krigsmodstanden, der ikke lod sig stoppe (Socialistisk Information, 23.03.14) + interview med Adam Hochschild: Generalerne udkæmpede fortidens krige (Information.dk, 18. januar 2014)
- Was Germany to blame for First World War?. By Neil Faulkner (Socialist Worker, Issue 2007, 1 July 2006). "Who caused the First World War? Revisionist historians argue that the war had to be fought because Germany was aggressive and militaristic, a ’rogue state’ that threatened ’the balance of power’ and ’the peace of Europe’."
- World War I: The breakdown of capitalism, Part 1-5. By Nick Beams (World Socialist Web Site, 21-26 September 2005)
- Prelude to revolution: Class consciousness and the First World War (International Socialism, Issue 76, September 1997, p.67-107). "Megan Trudell explains how and why workers’ and soldiers consciousness became so transformed."
- The First World War. By Ian Birchall (Grimanddim.org). First draft of a chapter from a never-completed book on proletarian internationalism (1996): "The role of the labour leaders was vital in several respects."
- Imperialist war and the question of peace: The peace politics of the Bolsheviks before the November 1917 Revolution. By Roman Rosdolsky (Revolutionary Communist, No.8, July 1978, p.35-43 + No.9, June 1979, p.44-56,; online at Marxists Internet Archive). Svensk udgave: Det imperialistiska kriget och fredsfrågan (Fjärde Internationalen, nr.4, 1980 + nr.1, 1981)
- 1914: The great schism. By Marcel Liebman (Socialist Register, 1964, p.283-292). On "... the collapse of socialism in August 1914, of the failure of internationalism, of the dramatic revelation of incapacity hitherto concealed by verbal daring and electoral successes." Svensk udgave på Marxistarkiv.se: 1914: den stora splittringen (pdf)
- Ten years ago and after. By J. T. Murphy (The Communist International, No.5, 1924)
"Ten years have gone since the “right” wing of the bourgeoisie swept forward on the tide of imperialism into the first world war."
- ‘The national principle’ (1916). By Leon Trotsky (Socialism Today, Issue 184 Dec/Jan 2014/15)
"Continuing our series to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the first world war we are printing an article written by Leon Trotsky, exposing the hypocrisy of world powers towards national minorities and oppressed peoples."